offensātĭo, ōnis, f. [offenso], a hitting or striking against any thing (post-Aug.).
I Lit., Plin. 28, 16, 62, § 221: ut offensatione illā (hastae) commoneretur (Demosthenes), Quint. 11, 3, 130.—
II Trop., a stumbling , tripping; a slip , blunder : debemus patienter ferre offensationes memoriae labentis, Sen. Ben. 5, 25, 6.